This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: RUSSELL, LEVERETT, SPERRY, JOHNSON, JOHNSTON Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/jUB.2ACI/1145 Message Board Post: He may have come to New York in less than great circumstances. He was a Mason and later moved to New Haven, CT were his family lived for about 150 years. Suggestions are made that he was acquainted with Alling BALL and that is why he ended up in New Haven. I would appreciate any help that anyone could lend. Thanks so much in advance.